Digital-based scientific journal management is a crucial element in strengthening academic culture and improving the quality of higher education publications. However, student involvement in journal governance remains limited, particularly in understanding editorial workflows, using Open Journal Systems (OJS), applying publication ethics, and utilizing supporting technologies such as reference management tools and editorial artificial intelligence (AI). This community service program aims to enhance students’ competencies in scientific journal management at the Institut Bisnis dan Informatika (IBI) Kesatuan Bogor through practice-oriented training and mentoring. The program employed an experiential learning and capacity-building approach, including OJS 3 technical workshops, editorial process simulations, focus group discussions (FGDs), and competency evaluations using pre-tests and post-tests. Participants consisted of students from various study programs with an interest in academic writing and scholarly publishing. The evaluation results indicate a significant improvement in participants’ competencies, with average scores increasing from 52.3% before the program to 86.7% after its implementation. The most substantial improvements were observed in OJS mastery, understanding of publication ethics, and the use of AI-based tools for proofreading and plagiarism detection. Furthermore, 82.5% of participants expressed readiness to serve as assistant editors for institutional journals, and 87.5% demonstrated increased motivation to write and publish scientific articles. This program contributes to strengthening students’ academic literacy, enhancing institutional journal management capacity, and supporting the implementation of Outcome-Based Education (OBE), the Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka (MBKM) policy, and the achievement of higher education Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).   Keywords: community service; scientific journal management; OJS; academic literacy; students; scholarly publishing.

Context Manuscript management systems (MMS) serve as centralized platforms for managing the submission, review, and publication of scholarly articles, thereby streamlining the publishing process. The submission process is crucial for usability analysis, as it represents the initial stage of interaction with users’ profiles. While many researchers emphasize the importance of making these systems more user-friendly, there is a notable lack of studies evaluating the usability of prominent MMS and offering solutions for identified usability issues. Aim This study aims to identify usability issues faced by authors working with three prominent MMS—Editorial Manager, ScholarOne, and Open Journal Systems (OJS)—and measure user satisfaction levels for the evaluated systems and propose usability guidelines to improve system effectiveness and ease of use. Method A multi-case usability study was conducted employing Think-Aloud Protocol (TAP) and System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire to capture usability issues and user satisfaction levels. Results All three systems exhibited notable usability issues in areas such as submission, user registration, password recovery, and profile updating—violating several usability heuristics, e.g., match between system and the real world, help and documentation, visibility of system status. SUS scores were used to quantify user satisfaction—Editorial Manager scored 34.5 (“Awful”), ScholarOne 68.0 (“Okay”), and OJS 65.5 (“Poor”), based on standard SUS

Building on my 2019 editorial note from last year on managing nature 5.0 in the industrial revolution 4.0 and society 5.0 era, I would like to expand our discussion on how the concept can be a booster for the circular economy. Innovative digital technology supported by a human-centered society is required to balance our economic advancement and environmental regeneration. Nature has provided us with useful resources that speed up the growth of our industries and economies and their shift toward sustainability. The well-being of our future will be dependent on how we can produce technology that can govern our climate, health, social equity, and stability. The circular economy is defined as a redesign of industrial systems to make them restorative and regenerative. The system aims to eliminate waste and continually use resources by reusing end life-cycle products and product waste, and recycling them for other uses or as regenerative resources for nature. As such, the circular economy becomes a systemic economic approach that contributes to the environment and yields society-wide benefits.Managing Innovation in the Circular Economy Innovation thus plays an important role in the development and implementation of the circular economy in which all production and consumption chains must be effective and efficient. Digital technologies increase production and resource efficiency in order to contribute to business performance improvement. The digital technologies, such as big data, a